Hermann Fischer (politician, 1911)

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Hermann Fischer (born July 24, 1911 in Mengersgereuth-Hammern ; † November 3, 1967 ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ).

Life

Fischer was born the son of a ship carver and a homeworker. After elementary school from 1926 to 1929 in Sonneberg , he completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer . After he had finished this and passed the journeyman's examination, he went on a hike , as was customary in the construction industry . He later worked as a bricklayer in Bad Dürrenberg . In 1929 Fischer became a member of the KPD and exercised party functions at local level. In 1933 he married Marie Wicklein, the daughter of the Sonneberg resistance fighter Adolf Wicklein (1886–1945), who was murdered by the National Socialists on January 5, 1945. From this marriage there were three children.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, he was arrested and spent the period from February 28 to April 30, 1933 in " protective custody " in the Nohra camp (near Weimar) . His father-in-law was imprisoned there with him.

After Fischer was released, he was persecuted and forced to change jobs frequently. Until 1939 he worked again as a bricklayer in Oberlind , Rudolstadt and Weimar , then he worked as a caretaker in Sonneberg in 1939/1940 . In July 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . Until April 1945 he was a soldier in a railway construction company .

After the war ended in 1945, Fischer worked again as a bricklayer in Oberlind and became active again for the KPD. 1945/1946 he was organizational secretary of the KPD local group Sonneberg. In the Sonneberg district, representatives of both workers' parties began to build a unified party as early as the summer of 1945. In Sonneberg, the union of the SPD and KPD to form the SED was completed on April 12, 1946 with the election of a local executive committee. Fischer was then secretary for agitation and propaganda until September 1948 , then from September 1948 to 1951 first secretary of the SED district leadership in Sonneberg . From 1951 to 1952 he was chairman of the district party control commission of the SED district leadership in Gotha . From January to December 1953 Fischer attended the party college "Karl Marx" , then from April 1954 to 1957 he was an employee and candidate of the Central Party Control Commission of the SED . From February 1957 to June 1958 he was the first secretary of the SED district leadership in Erfurt . From June 1958 to November 1967 he was, as successor to Max Rölz , chairman of the district party control commission in Erfurt. Fischer was also a member of the SED district leadership in Erfurt and temporarily his office.

He passed away unexpectedly at the age of 56.

Awards

literature

  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 181.
  • Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED - history, organization, politics. A manual . Dietz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 , p. 944.
  • Udo Wohlfeld, Falk Burkhardt: The network. The concentration camps in Thuringia 1933–1937. Documentation on the Nohra, Bad Sulza and Buchenwald camps . History workshop Weimar-Apolda, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-935275-01-3 , p. 76f.
  • Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Fischer, Hermann . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (ed.): SED squad: the middle level. Biographical encyclopedia of the secretaries of the state and district managements, the prime ministers and the chairmen of the district councils 1946 to 1989 . Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 184.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Armin Owzar : Not without compulsion, not without readiness. Comments on the (compulsory) unification of the SPD and KPD using the example of Thuringia (1945/46) . In: Heiner Timmermann (Hrsg.): The GDR - Analyzes of an abandoned state (= documents and writings of the European Academy Otzenhausen , 92). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, pp. 303-320 (here, p. 309)
  2. ^ Obituary in Neues Deutschland , September 13, 1967, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Mengersgereuth hammering
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1967